Sealing It Again

Anything that involves luck on a universal scale should be taken seriously; that's why Rachel immediately began using her gray energy.

Her gray energy stems from her rank 13 skill and is a reinforcement from her other incarnations in different worlds. Its source is limited because, in this universe, she doesn't have as many rank 13 incarnations to sustain the continued expenditure of her gray energy.

However, her supplies of gray energy are still massive and are sufficient to seal the office again.

In the long run, she would lose, as the office is a genuine rank 14 and can draw more power in total. However, she possesses more immediate gray energy.

Gathering all her gray energy in one place, Rachel shot a gray bullet exactly where the office was.

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Clocks civilization and Mount sect have been quite successful in exploring the illusion world. It's not as if all those they sent succeeded, but at least 10% survived to tell their tale.

This 10% survival rate is very high and indicates that this illusion world is very suitable for mortals. In total, there have been five people who managed to reach the master concept, while 68 reached the quasi-master realm.

As for the grandmaster, nobody reached it. Grandmaster is a very high level that very few below rank 12 have.

Even if immortals explore the illusion for a long time, it is still estimated that no grandmaster will appear. As for the great grandmaster, that might be possible if one explores the illusion world of rank 12 or 13.

Everything went well until a gray light appeared and completely annihilated anything nearby.

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Rachel didn't hold back; the last time, she had been careful because it was a manifestation of universal laws. This time, there was no such thing.

It's not easy to destroy a universe. In normal circumstances, without manifestation, even attacks based on the creation energy cannot destroy a universe.

Her attack completely wiped away anything that was close to the office but didn't harm the underlying universe.

The illusion world, however, was destroyed. Everything in the vicinity, except for the office, was completely destroyed.

The office used its golden energy shield and managed to repel all of the force of the blast.

Rachel was able to see everything, even though she was far away.

"Heh, take this next one!" she cast another gray energy bullet.

...

The office was under intense fire, so it had no time to protect any of its surroundings, nor did it want to do so.

Its reserves were low, as it had not yet been able to draw all of its reserves; most of the reserves were still under a seal and were unusable.

It had a trump card, though. It had hidden Miles before, and now that it was under attack, it had no choice but to use him again.

It brought Miles back and threw him directly before an incoming gray bullet.

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"Damn!" Rachel was extremely frustrated. This time, she saw exactly what the office's trump card was; it was a protagonist of creation.

Rachel knew what they were; they were the most terrifying beings in the world; no matter what they did, as long as they were in the creation, everything would help them.

The creation is not unbiased; it does put its thumb on the scale in favor of its protagonists. Fortunately, Rachel knew how to deal with it, but it was troublesome.

"You can do this because you know I do not want the universe destroyed!" she sighed and spent gray energy canceling the gray bullet.

Manifestations of universal law are rare, happening only once every few trillion years, but just now, Rachel detected another manifestation there; she would destroy the universe if she still tried killing the protagonist.

She could not win if the protagonist is alive.

To solve the protagonist, one has to find a way of removing their title, at least temporarily.

Anyone below rank 14 would have absolutely no chance of being able to harm a protagonist of creation, but Rachel is no normal rank 13.

She has access to much creation energy, even though she is not rank 14.

Her technique is quite simple; she cannot code around the creation, as she is not officially rank 14. But coding is a delicate technique that helps one achieve one's aim much more efficiently. It is possible to do things without code; only it costs many times more.

Taking out a massive amount of gray energy, Rachel spread it throughout the universe; the entire universe became foggy.

"Done!" she smiled; it cost her a lot, but this was the only way; she successfully insulated this world from the creation.

This is a technique she got from her recent communication with her incarnations in other charges of reality.

That's right; she found some of her incarnations in other universes, including some in rank 14; their help was essential for accelerating her calculation of infinite universal law.

This technique temporarily separated this entire universe from the creation.

Before, Rachel had questions about whether the creation was truly perfect, but now she knows the answer.

The creation has flaws; it is not perfect and complete; if it were complete, it would not have been possible to separate a part from it.

She can disconnect part of the creation because she owns a split of the creation. Her system.

Before, she had doubts about these questions, but now she knows; her system is a split from the creation, which is why the creation is not in its perfect state.

Her incarnations are all trying to split more pieces off and perfect the system while swallowing the creation.

Unfortunately for Rachel, the creation is infinite, so she really did not manage to swallow it all; it is, after all, infinite.

There are questions about infinity that boggle the minds of mortals and even immortals.

First, how can there be some infinities that are bigger than others?

For example, one group includes all numbers, while the other group includes only all negative-value numbers. Clearly, the group that includes all numbers is bigger than the group that only includes negative values.

But, in essence, both are infinite; both are unending. It can be proven that the group that includes all numbers is bigger using default universe math, but it cannot be truly proven in the real world.

Who knows, maybe there is some weird law of physics that cancels out positive and negative numbers, so the group that includes both positive and negative is actually smaller, as it would only include 0.

If one wants to write the two on paper, both would require infinite papers to be able to write them; there is no practical difference, even though, in theory, the group including all numbers is bigger.

Creation is the same; it is infinite and includes all things.

Rachel's system was split off from creation, so it should be smaller, but Is it truly smaller?

When her system split from the creation, did it really hurt creation? In the past, creation included all forms of energy, including gray energy, but after the system broke off, it now includes everything besides gray energy.

As an infinity, it got smaller, but it remained infinite.

Rachel's system is the same; it only includes authority over gray energy. As a piece that has broken off from creation, it is, like the creation, infinite.

However, nobody can truly physically prove it is actually smaller than the creation itself; nobody can prove it is not as strong as the creation; its energy output, like the creation, is infinite.

There is no practical effect to its smaller theoretical size.

Creation includes everything besides gray energy, so in theory, it's possible to create another system outside the creation using gray energy only; that system would be infinite, and for those living in it, it would not be noticeable whether they live in the creation or out of it.

In short, even though, in theory, her system must be a smaller system, in the real world, there is absolutely no difference.

Rachel doesn't have access to her system because her system is semi-rank 15, as it is a pure broken-off from the creation.

The creation itself is semi-rank 15, and so is the gray energy that broke off from it.

Everything always has been set up on the belief that the creation is infinite, all-knowing, and almighty—omnipotent and omniscient.

Rachel has her doubts; she has no measure, but her belief is that because her system broke off from the creation, the creation itself is no longer rank 15; it is only semi-rank 15.

Rank 15 means omniscient-omnipotent, and because the creation is no longer those, therefore, it is not rank 15.

Rachel has no way of knowing, but she thinks that the conditions for advancing to rank 15 are three things. 1-to be infinite 2-to be all-knowing 3-to be all-mighty

If one has that, they can become rank 15.

That means there can only be one rank 15 in the entire creation, among all timelines and charges of reality; it is not possible to have two beings that are both almighty and all-knowing. If two are those, then both will fall from rank 15 to semi-rank 15, as only one existence can be those.

But how did her system come to be? Was the creation rank 15, then fell in rank when it split off, or have the two never truly been part of each other? Rachel, for now, is leaning toward separation, but it's possible that her system was never part of the creation to begin with.

If they have never been united, it means there has never been a being that has reached rank 15. That would be absurd, as the creation was always known to be rank 15; she can see the evidence of its omnipotent power from Rachel's multiverse database.

But, those records may not reflect the whole truth. Nobody can truly test the creation's omnipotent and omniscient power; as long as there is one thing not known by the creation, it is not omnipotent, and as long as there is one thing it cannot do, it is not omniscient.

Rachel has a theory as to how her system came to be, though she has no evidence for it.

The only thing that can defeat a rank 15 being is itself; it, as omnipotent, can split a piece of itself. In that case, it would lose its rank and would no longer be omniscient; therefore, no longer rank 15.

As to why it did that? Rachel has no idea; all her theories regarding that are very far-fetched guesswork.

In any case, she can separate a part of the creation with her gray energy solely because her gray energy is not part of the creation.

The expenditure of splitting a part of the creation, though, is unimaginable; she lost 1% of her entire reserves every passing second.

So she hurried and used her gray energy to kill the creation's protagonist.

The office, not wanting to let it go like that, released all of its golden energy reserves and protected Miles.

Rachel wanted to end it, so she went all out and directly sent 50% of her reserves.

The entire universe and all of its surroundings shone with bright gray light. Usually, around a universe, there is chaos, but at this moment, all the chaos is instantly cleared away; the surroundings become as clean as a perfect void.

In the universe, The office's Golden energy was completely dwarfed by the overwhelming gray energy, and it soon fizzled out.

Without any protection, Miles was reduced to true nothingness; the remaining gray energy caught the office and sealed it outside the universe.

Before, Rachel didn't want to expend so much gray energy to seal it outside, but now, she wanted to seal it completely with no chance of it using different charges of reality to make a comeback.

The chaotic energy around the universe was cleaned, but it wasn't destroyed; it just went to the edges, hiding in fear.

Rachel took them all and put them around where the office was sealed. This way, the office could not use different charges to get out.

She crafted a formation to the best of her abilities and sealed the office off completely; the seal will last for 200,000,000 years.

She doesn't have the ability to destroy the office, nor can she seal it forever. After all, she is rank 13, and the office is a genuine rank 14; she can do this much because of the gray energy, but it is the limit.

If she fails to reach rank 14 in 200,000,000 years, she has to confront the fully charged office with less than half the reserves of gray energy.

After all this, she cleared all the remaining gray energy and recovered as much as possible. Then, without wasting time, she went back to calculating infinite universal law.